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Fusion Cycles director Chelsie Easton giving tips to local pollies Robert Cavallucci MP and Cr David McLachlan who will be competing in the Celebrity Citycycle race at the Fusion Games THIS month, several legends and celebrities are to hop on CityCycle bikes and ride a 1.2km course as part of the 2012 Fusion Games on the streets of Newstead to raise funds for the Amy Gillett Foundation which promotes safe road cycling in Australia.

Rugby league’s Shane Walker, waterpolo’s Elle Armit, marathoners Peter Nowill and Patrick Nispel and beach volleyball’s Jordan Mowen have signed on to race and attempt to complete the course on the 25kg bikes and fight for the title of CityCycle Criterium champion.

Race director and event organiser,

Mike Crawley, said the fundraising side would be “run like a horse race” with spectators able to bet on the competitor of their choice. If their competitor wins, they get a prize – but the money from their bet goes to the charity.

The Fusion Games to be held on Sunday July 22 is now in its third year, and sponsored by the Village News, has the support of enthusiasts Brisbane wide and local businesses in the Newstead/Teneriffe waterfront.

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Council calls for comments on cafe BRISBANE City Council is calling on residents, businesses and community groups to have a say on design plans for a cafe to be set up in the old bus depot toilet block on the edge of New Farm Park at the end of Brunswick Street.

Central Ward councillor, Vicki Howard said the public consultation process on the plans, which had been developed in close partnership with the community, opened on June 27 and would continue for 30 days.

The new cafe is one chapter on the bitter Cafe Wars that began more than 10 years ago after the 85-year-old Summerhouse Cafe burned down in 2000. The then cafe leaseholder Glen Boyle became embroiled in a “he said they said” argument over the design of a replacement building between himself and Brisbane City which ended up in the courts.

Many people objected to Mr Boyle’s plans and he eventually lost a lengthy legal challenge to have the plans approved.

The council then evicted Mr Boyle from the park and the temporary van he operated successfully and popularly since the fire.

Council then tendered for another business to replace Mr Boyle which was controversially won by award-winning Fortitude Valley coffee business, Bellissimo, which has operated for just over 12 months from a site near where Mr Boyle had set up.

Cr Howard said council still planned to replace the Summerhouse Cafe and the temporary kiosk with a permanent presence inside the park by next year but the design had not yet been finalised.

She said the holdup had been the proximity of a significant poinciana tree to where the kiosk was proposed.

“Ground-penetrating radars” were used and other tests carried out to assess potential impacts on the tree’s roots by any construction and found that the proposed design needed modification, including putting the kiosk on stumps instead of a slab.

Cr Howard said she expected the new kiosk to open early next year following a 10-week tender process.

As for the remodelling of the old bus terminus at the end of Bruswick Street, Cr Howard said council had met with community stakeholders on the designs over the past 12 months, produced newsletters on what was happening and released artist impressions of the proposal.

“The cafe will be located at the southern end of Brunswick St and the new facilities will be family friendly,” Cr Howard said.

She said council made significant changes to the proposal following community feedback, regarding noise control, opening hours, licensing, use of site and seating numbers.

The result is a proposed 37-seat cafe, reduced from 60, with restricted opening hours, no liquor licence and no commercial kitchen.

Cr Howard said council would carefully consider all additional feedback when producing the final cafe design.

She said tenders would be open to anyone wanting to operate the facility, with council committed to a transparent tender process.

To have your say on the New Farm Park cafe see plans at the New Farm Library, Central Ward office in Chinatown Mall or call Council’s Contact Centre on 3403 8888 or by logging on to www.brisbane.qld.gov.au See more on page 10>>>

Thanks Simon! ‘….and more importantly - I would like to congratulate the Village News on offering the best news about our suburb that I have ever known since 1983 when I came to live here. It’s topical, about real lives across the socio-economic and age mix, investigative and interesting. Keep up the good work. Simon Cavendish, New Farm See Simons full letter to the editor on page 10

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Rob and Jodie – having some “daddy daughter time” MOST Australians these days know a person who has a form of cancer or have a family member struck down with the disease. Teneriffe Progress Association president Rob Murdoch is one of those people Earlier this year, Rob’s wife Kian, was diagnosed with breast cancer without displaying any of the common risk factors.

Rob said Kian’s prognosis was good “thanks to the generosity of millions of people around the world who have at some time or another donated to cancer research in the past”.

He said Kian’s oncologist had said that as recently as five years ago, some of the cancer cells he found in her body would not have been detected but continuing research had changed that.

Doctors can now effectively address killing those cancers and significantly increase the chances of a full recovery for people such as Kian.

Rob said hearing that had stirred him into action to join the fight to find a cure for cancer.

He and his daughter Jodie have decided to make “a positive contribution towards cancer research” by entering in the 200km Ride to Conquer Cancer to be on August 1819.

The two have plenty of training planned in the lead up to the event to be able to ride the whole way.

“We have done rides out to Indooroopilly and Sandgate, up to Mt Coot-tha, and we just did one out to Ipswich” Jodie said. It’s great. My daughter gets daddy/daughter time, and I get daddy/daughter time” Rob and 33-year-old Jodie join other first timers in the ride - New Farm’s Charmaine Henrickson and Ian Carr who were featured in the April edition of the Village News who equally are taking part in the event because of personal experience of how cancer can turn a person’s life upside down.

Village News sub editor, Darryl Whitecross and his wife, Nerylie, and planning to take part in the event again this year, having ridden in the inaugural event last year.

Rob said that while he expected to enjoy the ride, “the whole idea of the exercise is really to help raise money for cancer research”.

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School looks for donors to show spirit THE Holy Spirit School, at New Farm, is looking for sponsors or donations of goods and services for its fete to be held later this year.

All sponsors have a choice of selecting a bronze, gold or platinum package and are to be publicised as supporting the fete through the school and on fete day.

The community effort from the previous fete, in 2010, helped the growing school revamp its front playground and buy an electronic message board.

This year, the money raised is to go towards refurbishing two new classrooms.

The fete is to be held on Sunday, September 16.

For further more information on sponsorship and donations, contact fete coordinator Karen Searle on 0411 400 576 or email on kmsearle@live.com.au or auction co-ordinator Sam Ryan on 0400 169 149 or email sammike61@yahoo. com

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Frail living in fear as abusive neighbour threatens violence

By Darryl Whitecross THINGS that go more than bump in the night have the elderly residents of Henderson Lodge, in Kent Street, New Farm, living in fear.

It is not only the bumps. It is shouting, the loud music, drunken rowdiness and hurling of abuse – all from one person in particular – who residents are reluctant to name for fear of reprisal.

The man and his mates create regular disturbances in the complex and the neighbours are left shaking in fear behind doors bolted shut every day. Some residents claim they can’t sleep because they dread what could happen.

The former homeless man rents an apartment in the Department of Housing complex after the social justice organisation Micah Projects, at West End, stepped in to help him find him affordable accommodation.

In one incident late last month, four car-loads of police answered a call of despair from the complex as the behaviour he and his mates displayed had escalated beyond what they could tolerate.

Resident Alan Batterham said the incident had “put the wind up me”.

Another, John Poole, said the man had “threatened to knock my block off”.

This was not the first time residents have had similar issues which have

caused them great uncertainty about their health, safety and security.

Lodge Unit Watch chairman Rob Reeve said there was a secluded spot at the rear of the complex which was a favourite spot for sex workers at night who would solicit customers there.

Dawn would reveal large numbers of used syringes.

Mr Reeve said lobbying by residents got the police involved. Regular patrols past the spot have all but stopped those activities.

Dallis Winter, a resident of the department’s Done Lane complex further along Kent Street from Henderson Lodge, said he had lobbied on behalf of residents for several years which was the catalyst for the police-sponsored Unit Watch program.

It was through his persistence that the Government and the police introduced a model to form Unit Watch across the state – as an offshoot of the Neighbourhood Watch program.

It is with that backdrop that the residents of the 44-unit 30-year-old Henderson Lodge set up what was one of Queensland’s first Unit Watch programs. Mr Winter attends most of the Henderson Lodge meetings as an official Unit Watch committee does not exist at the Don Lane complex.

The Henderson Lodge committee called a special meeting of the

residents after the most recent fracas.

The meeting was attended by Crime Prevention Officer from the Brisbane Central Police District, Sgt Don Dull, and COTA Safe and Confident Living Project co-ordinator Laraine Hinds.

Mr Reeve said there were “a lot of elderly and frail people” living in the complex and the regular misbehaviour by that one person had left residents “petrified”.

On one occasion, people leaving hurled abuse and threatened to return and burn the complex down.

John Poole said that when asked to consider modifying their behaviour and bad language, “all he wants to do is fight you”.

Sgt Dull said the abuse of alcohol or other substances was often the cause of the disturbances and had often had success resolving similar situations when he had spoken to the perpetrators when they were sober.

Henderson Lodge’s Unit Watch program has been running for five years.

Sgt Dull said that, while the new LNP State Government was looking to bring trim spending, it had announced further funding to the community safety programs such as Unit Watch, Neighbourhood Watch and Rural Watch.

He said residents could be

There are a lot of elderley and frail people living in the complex and the regular misbehaviour has left them petrified Chairman Rob Reeve “comfortable” that Unit Watch would be supported by police.

Mr Reeve said the residents fully supported the rehabilitation of “high needs people” and being given second and third chances in life but such people needed to be more tolerant and respectful of the communities into which they were placed.

Sgt Dull said there needed to be effective punishment for people who continually created disturbances and behaved unlawfully against their neighbours.

“If there is no discipline for the behaviour, the behaviour will continue,” he said.

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THE Valley Chamber of Commerce is about to spawn another offshoot.

Following on from the formation of the Teneriffe Chamber of Commerce, which was launched in March this year, a new body is to be formed at Spring Hill.

The Spring Hill Chamber of Commerce is to be launched on Thursday, August 2, at the Alliance Hotel, on the corner of St Paul’s Terrace and Boundary Street, from 5.30pm and be a division of the Valley chamber.

The launch function is to run until 7.30pm with speeches to begin at 6.15pm.

The manager of the Incholm Hotel at Spring Hill, Liz Martin, is to be the inaugural chair of the executive. Liz already is a sitting member of the Valley chamber. Membership is to be open to all businesses in the Spring Hill area. Members are to have reciprocal rights with the Valley and Teneriffe chambers. Businesses need to register their interest in the chamber to be invited to the launch by emailing the business name, address, telephone and email address to admin@ valleychamber.com.au The new chamber is aiming to register the email address admin@springhillchamber.com.au and have a website at www.springhillchamber.com.au Carol Gordon, the executive director and treasurer of the VCC, said Spring Hill was a linchpin suburb, linking Bowen Hills, the Valley and the CBD. “It’s a kind of no-man’s land suburb with a lot of businesses, schools and houses all spread out,” Carol said.

“It’s time for the businesses to engage,” she said. “It’s time to have an opinion and give the area a voice.”

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Cav opens his electorate office

By Darryl Whitecross

ON the eve of the LNP celebrating 100 days in office, Premier Campbell Newman opened the electorate office of the Member for Brisbane Central, Rob Cavallucci.

With his Spring Hill office full of eager LNP current and former pollies – including former deputy premier and Treasurer Sir Llew Edwards, business leaders, chambers of commerce representatives, community group representatives and party supporters – Mr Cavallucci thanked the electorate for their faith to elect him.

Addressing the crowd, Mr Cavallucci said he was still feeling and learning his way in his new career as a politician but was as proud to be an MP. He paid tribute to Mr Newman in the confidence he had shown by appointing him as Assistant Ministry for MultiCultural Affairs.

“I feel confident in that space,” Rob said.

“Over the next three years, we will try and do our best to serve the community out of this office,” he said.

New Central Ward councillor, Vicki Howard, also spoke.

Mr Newman said it was great to have LNP representatives in the three tiers of government covering the city – Vicki Howard in City Hall, Rob Cavallucci in State Parliament and Teresa Gambaro in Canberra.

Carlyn & Robert Cavallucci with Premier Campbell Newman & Cr Vicki Howard

“My. Haven’t things changed?” he said reflecting on the 10 years he had been in the political arena and the hold on politics in Brisbane that the ALP had had.

“It was deep red Labor territory.”

He said he was looking forward to ticking over the 100 days when “with hand on heart” the LNP could say it had delivered on each of the promises it had made in the election campaign to achieve in that time.

Mr Newman praised the efforts of so many LNP members who were new parliament.

“It’s hard to pick up the ball and run with it,” he said.

In declaring the office open, Mr Newman quipped: “It’s better than the Ashgrove office.” (Mr Newman is the Member for Ashgrove.) The office is at Hill House, 2/541 Boundary Street, Spring Hill, 3832 1322.

Service club returns ROTARY, the international service club, is making a comeback at New Farm with a new club having set up on the peninsula.

The Rotary Club of New Farm has a dozen members to date and needs 25 before it can receive a charter – the official recognition by the Rotary International as an active club – which members hope will happen this month.

Forming the club was originally suggested by Bill Phillips, the president of the Rotary Club of Brisbane High-Rise, but it is being spearheaded by Rotary District 9600 secretary and New Farm resident Darryl Iseppi and another Rotarian, Kristian Wale.

Darryl said he and Kristian only wanted to play a minor part in the new club’s administration as mentors so it could “develop its own character”.

The provisional club holds breakfast meetings each Wednesday morning at Eves on the River at Teneriffe.

Darryl said that, despite the stereotype that Rotarians are “old men”, the new club aimed to attract members of all ages and both genders.

He said the ages of the members of the provisional club ranged from those in their 20s to the retired.

“Many Rotary clubs around Australia now have members under 20 years of age and there is no reason this cannot happen in New Farm,” Darryl said.

“It is hoped that the membership will be representative of the community and, so far, this is happening with both the

Darryl Iseppi welcomes new Rotarians

range of ages and the mix of genders.”

It is not the first time New Farm has been home to a Rotary club.

“New Farm had a Rotary club for many years before it closed in the late 1990s due to a lack of membership,” Darryl said.

“With the huge changes that have happened to the New Farm, Teneriffe area and the influx of new developments, housing and business, it is ideal to look for a new Rotary club with new ideas to give the people of the area a new network for business, social and service opportunities.

“A new club can adopt new attitudes and new direction without the ties of what is currently happening in an existing club. There are many good existing clubs covering the Brisbane City, Valley and Hamilton areas, however a new club allows new traditions to be established,” he said.

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Society raises periscope on story about our sub station NEW Farm was on high alert after the bombing of Darwin in February, 1942.

Relative complacency about the threat to Australia gave way to genuine concern so, while some women and

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children went to stay with relatives in the country, households, schools and businesses prepared for air raids.

The war effort to contain the Japanese advance began in earnest with the arrival of a tremendous United States military buildup.

In April, 1942, a submarine task force was established on the riverfront at New Farm (now Teneriffe) adjacent to Beeston Street. This was just before the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8, 1942) and the base continued until early 1945, when Japanese shipping had been forced far away to the north.

Those submarines were at the forefront of action and they forged a worthy record of achievement. 79 submarines operated out of Brisbane

and sank more than 100 enemy ships, supporting coastwatchers, carrying out rescues and training local forces. The cost was high, with seven Brisbane-based submarines being lost with more than 426 crewmen.

New Farm’s submarine base was extensively developed with store and repair depots and barracks.

Submariners mixed widely with the locals, whether on leave or in their patronage of local businesses.

Many Brisbanites who lived at New Farm at the time, remember the excitement of off-duty sailors crowding the wharf trams as they left for the city.

As much as New Farm residents were aware of the presence of the base, idle talk in public about a prohibited subject was a matter of national security, as railway clerk Herbert Peachy discovered in January 1943: When a fellow traveller on the Bulimba tram asked Peachey whether there was anything worth seeing in the Brisbane River, Peachey was heard to reply: “Yes, there is a mother ship, four submarines, five torpedo boats and a landing barge at New Farm Wharf.”

Mr Peachy was escorted to the Valley police station and, though later

found not to have had any sinister intention, the breach of National Security regulations cost him £2.

In many cases, a warm relationship developed between the American sailors, most of whom were very young, and Brisbane families who welcomed them into their homes.

The New Farm & Districts Historical Society considers that, as the ranks of the wartime generation which remembers those events begin to dwindle, it is important that the achievements of submarines homeported in Brisbane are properly recognised and remembered.

That is the reason its July meeting is to be addressed by Brisbane author David Jones, who is considered an expert on the subject.

A familiar face at the Queensland Maritime Museum, David combined with Peter Nunan to write Subs Down

Under, the story of Brisbane’s wartime US submarine base.

David also wrote Master Mariner, a biography of Captain Harold Chesterman, as well as The Whalers of Tangalooma and Wings on the River and, most recently, Royalty and the River: 150 years of Royal occasions on the Brisbane River.

Royalty and the River was launched in May by Queensalnd Governor Penelope Wensley on the deck of HMAS Diamantina at the Maritime Museum.

The meeting about New Farm’s wartime submarine base is to be held at the Uniting Church Centre, 52 Merthyr Road, on Saturday, July 28, from 2pm-4pm. Everyone is welcome and afternoon tea is to be provided.

For further information, telephone Ross Garnett on 0409 498 402 or log on to www.newfarmhistorical.org.au

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The wool stores adjacent to Beeston Street provide a backdrop to the submarine tender USS Fulton with several subs alongside.

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Elder abuse day slips by unnoticed

IT was World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on Friday, June 15. That it went by almost unnoticed is symptomatic of the problem that most people, whether victim or perpetrator, probably do not

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Most abuse occurs within the family and often goes unreported because of that, let alone the lack of recognition of the problem.

There are several forms of abuse but financial is the most prevalent, costing Queenslanders millions a year. It may be abuse of Enduring Powers of Attorney where the Trustee tries to anticipate the inheritance or a demand for capital from a younger generation sometimes accompanied by emotional or other form of abuse as a bargaining chip, for example denying any relationship between grandparents and grandchildren or even straight out physical abuse. Neglect and/or sexual abuse are particularly distressing forms of abuse.

The Elder Abuse Prevention Unit is the focus of complaints of abuse, commonly reported through the Seniors

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In the future, a new Act passed through Parliament and awaiting assent in September, widens the definitions of family violence in Queensland to encompass all forms of abuse with no differentiation related to age.

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For further information on NSA or the New Farm branch, telephone Tony Townsend on 3315 2523.

Dancers ‘out there’ with kids

By Liza Armstrong

NEW Farm State School was one of four schools to host the Australian Ballet when members of the troupe visited Brisbane last month with its “Out There” in schools program.

The program is designed to give children the opportunity to take part in and to value dance as a form of learning, artistic expression, recreational New Farm State School students with members activity and of the Australian Ballet entertainment. performer. Any preconceptions About 120 NFSS students had about ballet were students from Years 2 to 7 twirled, challenged by the athleticism, twisted, stretched – and stomped strength, skill and commitment – their way through 60-minute of the dancers and the fun and movement workshops lead by dynamism of the dance workshops. members of the Australian Ballet’s Queenslanders are well Dance Education Ensemble. represented in the Australian Ballet The workshops culminated in and the “Out There” experience a dance demonstration by the may inspire a new generation ensemble, followed by a lively of dancers - or at least dance discussion between students and aficionados - from New Farm State ensemble members about dance, School. costumes and life as a professional

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villagevoice Roads better shared

As a cyclist, pedestrian, bus taker and car driver who has navigated the James and Kent streets roundabout for decades (June issue 2012), I would like to make a few comments and offer a simple solution. Many comments in Darryl’s excellent article may not have come from multiple perspectives.

Overall, I don’t think the roundabout is any more dangerous than many intersections and roads either in the suburb or indeed in Brisbane but things can be safer, because Brisbane is not safe.

Buses, large vehicles and even some cars do find the roundabout hard to navigate. It was designed specifically for traffic calming in the early 1990s through our efforts on the New Farm Teneriffe Residents Association.

Urban Renewal followed and, this year, won a national Planning Institute

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Association award for the positive changes over 20 years (http://issuu. com/associatedmediagroup/docs/ pia_book_web2?mode=window&view Mode=doublePage). Maybe that’s why our local suburbs are highly soughtafter which they weren’t in the 80s. Yet, there is always room for improvement as the Teneriffe Progress Association is advocating. Fewer vehicles was Urban Renewal’s vision. We got more so we do need traffic calming such as on the roundabout.

As a pedestrian, I have always found that I have reasonable line of sight and a central refuge when crossing at the roundabout. The intersection is busy but not too busy to cross.

My concern is as a cyclist. I have gone around that roundabout thousands of times. I confront two issues daily: poor bikeway design and inconsiderate drivers.

Brisbane City Council cycleway approach the roundabout from all four directions and are simply painted lines on the road. They are the leftover road width after designation of the standard carriageway width. They leave cyclists to “share” the remainder of the road width with parked cars.

As streets narrow, they disappear altogether. I never cycle in the cycleway on Kent Street. It is far too dangerous and narrow (see above photo) with badly parked cars, cars doing strange manoeuvres and the risk of car doors being opened. On the approach to the

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roundabout, all cycleways disappear.

Unless I pull into the centre of the approach lane, occasionally I will have cars competing to go around the roundabout when I do. This is illegal, dangerous and may have occurred with poor Francesco. Sadly, friends who stayed with us recently and had cycled 100,000km down the Americas and from England to Australia, declared Australian drivers the most inconsiderate they had met in more than 60 countries.

My short-term suggestion is simple: BCC should merge the bike lane into the vehicle lane on approach to the roundabout. This requires white paint to clearly designate the shared approach. In the long term, let us be more considerate of others and have real cycle ways like they have in Holland.

Finally – and more importantly – I would like to congratulate the Village News on offering the best news about our suburb that I have ever known since 1983 when I came to live here.

It’s topical, about real lives across the socio-economic and age mix, investigative and interesting. Keep up the good work.

Simon Cavendish New Farm

More bike use is wish

I AM writing in response to the article “TPA is driving force behind community debate on traffic” published in the June

edition of Village News.

Included in the TPA’s Wish list for Teneriffe is a suggestion to “Take CityCycle off the street parking places”.

As a cyclist, I was surprised to read that an organisation with a vision to “promote proper urban design and planning for the suburb” would advocate the removal of CityCycle stations at Teneriffe.

I believe that replacing bike stations with car spaces is counterproductive to promoting safe transport activity as it encourages car usage and leads to further traffic congestion in the suburb.

A better approach is to improve cycle infrastructure to encourage CityCycle usage as an inexpensive and healthy alternative to the car.

International studies show that shared cycle schemes play an important role in progressive urban transport networks and I would urge local residents to support CityCycle in the future development of Teneriffe.

Brian McGrane

Town plans shunned

COMMUNITY is a much-used word in Local Government. There are community consultations, community development plans, community enrichment programs. This is because councils know that, if the communities that they govern are strong, then that is the bedrock on which good local governance stands.

Sadly Lord Mayor Quirk only pays

First year in park, Bellissimo

THE past 12 months in New Farm Park for Bellissimo’s mobile coffee hut have gone by quickly although it had not been easy, director Mark Bignell said.

“Very fast indeed,” Mark said.

He said Bellissimo had been “very grateful” for the opportunity to have the lease to operate in the park and “most appreciative” of the support from the public. “(Brisbane City) Council has also been very good to work with even though it is a challenging task running the van self-sufficient in terms of power and water supply, resulting in us being more limited in our range of products than we’d otherwise like to offer,” Mark said.

“It’s certainly not an easy operation.

Sometimes business is great when the sun’s shining and everyone’s in the park on the weekends but then you’ll have a run of days like now (rainy and cold winter weather) where we do next to no business at all,” he said.

Bellissimo is pleased to learn that council was pushing ahead with its plans to develop the old bus terminus at the end of Brunswick Street.

Mark said with New Farm Park being such an iconic location, that, if done well, the revamped bus terminus “should only add to the attraction of the precinct”.

“In the sense that council’s

undertaking further FROM PAGE 3 consultation with the community (giving the opportunity for the public to comment on the plans), I think this is positive as the views of residents can contribute to a great outcome for the park.

In terms of where Bellissimo Coffee fitted into council’s plans, Mark said the little coffee company was happy to continue serving the patrons of the park until the planned new cafe inside the park was.

“We’ll then give serious consideration to the opportunity to submit an application through the public tender process which I believe will be open to anyone wishing to manage the new cafe operation,” Mark said.

“What we’ve learnt most is that we are part of a very passionate and healthy community that takes pride in its local area so this is a real strength that I am sure will help people continue to push for the best outcomes council can deliver,” he said.

Bellissimo Coffee’s headquarters is at 30 Wandoo Street, Fortitude Valley. It was the champion medal – the only one awarded to a coffee roaster that year and won one of the two gold medals on offer in the Espresso Class at the 2010 Sydney Royal Fine Food Show.

villagenews lip-service to the idea of a healthy community.

All over Brisbane, this local council is overseeing gross overdevelopment that is striking death-blows into communities. These are communities that have been built, over many years, by citizens with a genuine respect for the streets of their town and the neighbours that they share those streets with.

I have lived in an inner-city area of Brisbane for more than 20 years and seen it grow into a safe solid community where people are happy to raise their children. All that will be decimated by the proposed development at the end of our residential street of a four-storey, 300-bed, aged-care facility operating as a full scale 24-hour commercial business.

Despite being the administrating authority of the town plan, the BCC have made no effort in ensuring that the development proposal at the end of my street fits within the constraints set out in the town plan. The town plan states quite clearly that any proposed development needs to be consistent in size and scale to that of the surrounding buildings.

Instead, in acts of duplicity all over this city, council are accepting of the proposed size and scale of developments that are well in excess of what is meant to be allowed under the constraints of the town plan.

My community is baffled as to why

council would support a development which is clearly outside the constraints set out in a document which they themselves have developed and administer.

It is not just my community, I realise now, as I picked up a local newspaper and found two more communities baffled and besieged by the same strange turnaround in council’s actions.

This is just the southside. What is happening in the north and the west of Brisbane?

Debra Beattie Woolloongabba

Government slow to act

I and the Kent Street Unit Watch have pleaded five times over four years about the shocking (traffic behaviour) that happens on Kent Street. We pleaded with (the former) Labor MP, Grace Grace, and (former) Premier Anna Bligh to put in place road calming and lights on Kent and James streets.

The police have spoken up for us. (The pleas) have fallen on blind eyes and deaf ears. (The State Government) passes the buck onto the Brisbane City Council. It’s important to have your say on the important traffic proposal in your street. We would love a town planner to attend one of our Unit Watch meetings.

Dallis Winter Co-founder of Unit Watch in Kent Street, New Farm *The Kent Street Unit Watch meets on the last Wednesday of each month.

Street a ‘racetrack’

AS a resident of Kent Street, I was deeply saddened of the death of Francesco Leo but, unfortunately, not totally shocked. The section between Chester and James streets has long become a racetrack for motorists throughout the day and a brake testing street for a major brand vehicle service department in the Valley.

The speed reached by some of these vehicles is absurd and will not be long before another tragedy is recorded in this street.

For the Valley police inspector to say that there is no real speeding problem is laughable. He should get out in the “real world” and not rely on speed cameras which, by the way, I have not ever seen in that section of Kent Street.

More patrols and old-fashioned policing would catch far more of these speedsters than setting up a van which would be easily noticed.

I would also like to see the introduction of speed humps like the recently installed ones in Arthur Street.

I hope the death of Francesco will not be in vain and hope Brisbane City Council and the police look further into this.

Gino Toscano New Farm

Handball is back

THE New Farm Neighbourhood Centre is to host a handball tournament at the Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm, next month.

The cost and alcohol-free tournament, which is open to all ages, is to bring back nostalgia for adult participants who played the popular Australian schoolyard game as children.

It is to be held on Saturday, August 18.

Centre manager Fiona Hunt said the game was chosen to bring the “full diversity” of the community together for an “afternoon of spirited play and celebration of these stunning winter days.”

“We want the local school children to come and we want business teams to come. We want families, we want loners and we want hipsters. We want everyone,” Fiona said, She said the tournament would be a special opportunity for the community to get involved with such a unique event.

To register for the tournament, email Outreach Development Worker Clare at clare@ newfarmneighbourhood.org or telephone her on 0419 707 224 or Fiona on 0407 635 873.

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WHEN I went to the footy recently at Lang Park, I noticed Alfie Langer, the Broncos legend, run onto the field with the big letters HANS on his shirt. The whole team followed; also

It’s a ride through 1940s wartime Europe, his voyage to Australia, a ride through an older-time Brisbane, a migrant’s tale about the human conditions, a lesson in tenacity, survival and ultimately the pursuit for simplicity and happiness…

This story begins in 1945 in Haarlem, Holland, 18km from Amsterdam. Allied planes fly air raids over German-occupied Holland daily and families run often to

by Gary Balkin their underground bunkers. At the age of with the logo on their shirts. That got 13 Hans started to work with his dad me thinking. in the small family bakery: “1945 was Does Hans van der Drift still own the the worst year: no electricity, freezing famous smallgoods company? winters, little food, no nothing,” he said.

I had met Hans about 30 years ago.

“I worked seven days; never had time I had first tasted his sausages years for fun. Dad was in a concentration before that – real European flavours. camp in Poland. I was the breadwinner.

Meeting Hans again – and his I had to scrounge for extra food for my charming wife of 40 years, Lyn – over mum and two sisters.” coffee, he has not lost the common After the war, Hans’ father returned touch or his sense of humour through home, A few years later, Hans was all the good times and bad times. called up to the Dutch army. He then The former Dutch migrant of the midvolunteered for posting to Dutch New 1950s, who had become such a fair Guinea (now West Papua). dinkum Aussie, father of eight, colourful “That’s how I came to be here,” he raconteur and entrepreneur, took me said, his face alight with a big grin. through his wonderful life.

“I loved the sunshine after the bitter I can tell of Hans’ fabulous ride – the cold and ice of Holland: the sunshine, highlights, the struggles, the diehard the palm trees, white sandy beaches. personality and quote some his gems.

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“I taught the natives Europeanstyle fishing,” Hans said. “They did my laundry and ironing for money. I was repaid the money by importing European fishing lines and I taught them trolling for big mackerel from their outriggers. I got them to put aside their fishing spears and catch the bigger fish by hand-line. I must have imported lots of fishing lines.”

Hans had found his forte – assessing needs and leading the way with entrepreneurial skills.

Yet that chance to capitalise was still ahead of him: “I wrote to Dad when my time was up and told him I was coming home to build up the family business.

Yes, home to the ice and snow again – and, after 12 months, I couldn’t stand it any more so I married and hopped on a boat to Australia.

“It was 1956 and an emotional farewell. Dad came to the ship departing Rotterdam. I can still see him: the big man forging his way to me through the crowd, hugging me with tears in his eyes, saying: ‘I love you, son.’ It was the last time I saw him alive. He died 12 months later.”

After a journey of more than six weeks by ship, Hans and his wife arrived in Brisbane via Freemantle, Melbourne and Sydney where his efforts to find a pastry chef job were fruitless.

“When we were on the train to Brisbane,” he said. “When we were on the train to Brisbane, there were still many migrants aboard and men had standing room only. Despite the dark night around us, we all looked out into the countryside for kangaroos but not one was sighted. We stopped at Casino and there we had breakfast. It was my first taste of bloody saveloys and I was shocked. They tasted like sawdust.

I remember thinking that there’s an opportunity here for someone to make some decent sausages, not thinking it would one day be me.

“Arriving at Wacol (north of Brisbane), we lived in one of the old army huts.

I landed a job at Penneys’ bakery in Warry Street, the Valley, as a pastry chef. We supplied to the great old family stores of the time: Allan & Stark, McWhirters, TC Beirne, Barry & Roberts, Edwards & Lamb, Finneys, Waltons and, of course, Penneys store

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One of the first house doors I knocked on, a big, fearsome, hairy fellow in a navy blue singlet stood in front of me. I said: ‘Hello. I am from Holland. I made these very tasty Dutch apple donuts.

“He growled: ‘They must be bloody stale if they came all the way from Holland.’ He ended up buying two every day. We sold 10 a day to Samios, others to a Shell service station, a drycleaning place. Then? We went broke.

“So I started again. We, my brotherin-law Herman and I together now, went in for wholesaling the apple-filled donuts in a big way, starting at 9pm working through the night. Then, each morning, on a motor bike with sidecar (remember those?), we delivered to the snack bars in the City and the Valley.

We were so busy. Busy going broke – again.

“I got a job working in a bakery in Ascot. He was generous, the boss – paid me the then great wage of 25 pounds a week plus a house. This time he went broke.

“Luck came my way. He sold all his majority shares to me for $1 but I had to carry forward the creditors totalling $4000. I was now managing director of Williams Food Products Pty Ltd. We had 15 female workers. My next stroke of luck? One day I had some pork mince

leftover from pie-making and I made four meat loafs, with special spices in breadcrumbs, off the top of my head. It looked anaemic so I deep-fried them, then asked a mate of mine, a snack bar owner, to taste it.

“It was the birth of iconic Dutch Roast Pork. It was used everywhere for sandwiches, barbecue patties, and … mate, I never had it so good. We laughed all the way to the bank. All fine – until I heard the announcement: KR Darling Downs, then the top ham and smallgoods producer, were selling Dutch Roast Pork. I thought: ‘Here we go again. We’ll go broke again for sure.

“I rang KR and the sales manager just laughed at my protests. I reiterated that they were so big, with so many lines, and this was my only line. I ended by retorting: ‘Remember my name – Hans. One day we’ll beat you at your own game’. All I heard was his laugh: ‘Ha Ha’. He then hung up.”

With the click of the telephone receiver in his ears, Hans van der Drift planned his future to survive. He found a book on how to make smallgoods, how to bone out pigs, lambs, cattle; how to make the best sausages. He built a smokehouse in another bakery at Morningside; then Austrian Heinz Stagl walked through the door. He was a genius at perfecting the European style. Hans never looked back. His company mushroomed.

Timing was good. So many European migrants and their families and friends down the years loved Hans’ goods –

no flour, no water in the products. In Europe, Hans said, sausages were dearer that meat. Not so here.

“Hans’ Continental Smallgoods… We were going that way – up. They (KR) had been going that way (down) so were other opposition – Dandy Ham and Bacon, Mayfair Ham, Huttons.”

In fact, one day Hans nearly bought KR Darling Downs but it was suddenly snapped up by a Singaporean company. Hans sold his own company in 1988 to Asahi Foods for a good sum but was somewhat unhappy to sell offshore. Years later, he was pleased to see Sydney company Primo buy it back so it’s Aussie-owned again.

Today, KR Darling Downs is owned by a Castlemaine, Victoria company, also back in Aussie hands but the Brisbane and Toowoomba branch has closed down.

Hans couldn’t retire quietly and gracefully. His entrepreneurial spirit and love of new challenges kept him fired up. A string of successful and notso-successful enterprises followed – Koffies (six) coffee houses, a wonderful cakes business: “It grew and it grew and it grew”, later on-sold to Nestle. He bought some Spanish dancing Horses (and bred more on his Esk farm) which he put into Keith Williams’ former Bird Life Park on the Spit – calling it Andalucía Park. This land he eventually sold to Christopher Skase who went on to build the Sheraton Marina Mirage Hotel on the site.

That sale paid off debts from the

dancing horses venture, exciting as it was, and he described the feeling: “I had a lot of fun and a lot of experience.

We still own the 600 acre farm where the horses were bred and we had 1500 Angora goats. The atmosphere in the shearing shed was fabulous. The farm is now for agisting cattle – other people’s cattle. People who pay us.”

Hans didn’t stop there. He invested in a profitable hydroponic farm at Chandler, the Gypsies restaurants in the Wintergarden and at Mariners Cove but sold them later.

What does he do now? “I do what I love: I sing. Yes, I can sing. We travel around nearly every day – Lyn is my roadie – at places like the RSLs, retirement villages, nursing homes, private functions, the Dutch Club.

We have a purpose-built caddy to tow around to these venues. We are healthy and happy and there are 10 grandkids.”

Hans and Lyn have 25-year-old twin sons Kurt and Tys, who live in Toronto, Canada, where Kurt is a project coordinator for a large Canadian building company and Tys is a journalist working for a PR company. From Hans’ first marriage, Michael works with Antony’s Gotzinger Smallgoods & Deli at Yatala and Raymond and Hans jnr are in the Import business together. His daughter, Wendy, is an artist who lives at Maleny on the Sunshine Coast.

A final word from Hans: “I am the migrant this country wanted – one of many Australia were looking for.”

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Grown-ups still haunted by ghost of Brown’s Lane past

THE house in Brown’s Lane was originally built in the 1890s as a townhouse for a member of the local Squattocracy. It was a large timber house, rather austere in execution and possessing none of the architectural furbelow or decorative flourish usually associated with a residence of a well-to-do landowner.

A wide shady veranda ran along three sides of the house protecting the outer walls from the relentless Queensland sun while the high, steeply pitched, corrugated iron roof provided further cooling protection for the dark interiors.

The house was built in the shape of a U. The well-proportioned formal sitting room along with two of the four bedrooms opened via french doors on to the front veranda. The right wing contained the remaining bedrooms and the left wing was comprised of the dining room, kitchen, walk-in pantry and two medium-sized rooms, the original purpose of which wasn’t clear. They were eventually, at my Grandfather’s direction, to become a bathroom and an office/informal sitting room.

A long windowless corridor at the back of the house connected the two wings and the rooms at the front of the house.

By the time my Grandfather had acquired the property in the

early 1950s, it had endured many indignities and had acquired the look of a rather Grande Dame down on her luck. All that remained of the once splendid gardens were a few oleander and pepperina trees.

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My Grandfather soon sacrificed it completely to make way for space to house his horses.

I can’t remember ever being introduced to the house. It had always just been there; a continuum and a major part of my childhood landscape. Although Brown’s Lane, as the house became known, belonged to my grandparents, it was always filled to the rafters with a constant and ever-changing flow of

family. Grandchildren, aunts, uncles and cousins all called it home at one time or another. Vociferous arguments, tearful reconciliations, laughter and the sounds of passionate love-making filled the old house. It was in effect the nucleus of a large, boisterous and clannish family.

Also sharing those large cavernous rooms were the inhabitants from a more nebulous and umbral world; a world that ran parallel to the rowdy physical world that my family and I so noisily occupied. It was a world deliberately ignored by the grown-ups and when it did alarmingly impinge on their reality, it was hastily explained away in terms they found acceptable and didn’t challenge the natural order of things.

I remember one winter day in the kitchen at Brown’s Lane.

It was morning tea time and my Grandmother had just given me a cup of milky tea and an Iced VoVo biscuit – my favourite – when we heard one of the Aunties screaming: 2I’m coming. I’m coming!” Indeed, within moments, we heard her running footsteps thundering through the dining room and into the kitchen. Wild eyed and paled faced, she ran franticly to the giant welsh dresser that took up almost a

whole wall of the kitchen.

“It didn’t fall? I heard it fall.

I swear I heard the smashing of crockery and the scream of a child,” cried the Aunty. Confusion and uncertainty had replaced the look of fear on my Aunt’s face. A warning glance of “not in front of the child” was exchanged between the two women. I feigned great interest in my cup of tea and biscuit. Children are sly creatures. They know if you keep quiet you may hear something grown-ups rather you didn’t. I was no different.

“Here, take a cup of tea,” says my Grandmother, passing a cup to the still shaken Aunty. “It will help calm you”. My eyes turn curiously to the dresser. It was heavily laden with blue willow, cups, saucers, dinner plates and serving trays. A giant, made of English oak, it had stood there for as long as I could remember. Why did Aunty think it had fallen over? My Grandmother quick to arrest any big ideas in small heads said in quelling accents: “Must have come from the Mackenzie’s. The noise I mean.” I said nothing. I knew better, Phoebe had told me about the “Others”.

Phoebe is my cousin and is closest to me in age and at the time of this story. She was six and I 12 months younger. Phoebe is singular, in a clan of mostly olive skinned, darked haired people. She is fair and has eyes so pale blue they almost appear eerily white, long, ash blonde hair curls wildly around her head.”Medusa’s hair” I have heard it described as.

Phoebe’s imagination, as a child, wasn’t always met with approval from the grown-ups. She was at times, mischievously disruptive, frightening the less mentally robust children with stories of evil lurking in the dark hallway at the back of Brown’s Lane. So vivid were her tales, no child alone would venture along its long passage. It had to be said that most adults also avoided the hall’s dark recesses, instead using the surrounding veranda as a

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It wasn’t long after the incident in the kitchen that Phoebe introduced to the family her friend Bella. Bella was, disconcertingly so, invisible.

“An imaginary friend?” I overheard an aunt say to Phoebe’s mother.

“Nothing wrong with that. A lot of children have imaginary friends,” the aunt concluded. I could see Phoebe’s mother wasn’t comforted.

“But don’t you think it’s strange that it’s only here at Brown’s Lane that Phoebe sees her?” Warning looks are again exchanged above my head signalling big ears are flapping. I leave the room, nothing further too be learnt. I had been noticed.

Years later, Phoebe and I sit on the edge of the veranda at Brown’s Lane with our long, thin legs swinging freely over the void between house and earth. “Can you see her?” asked Phoebe, carefully spitting watermelon seeds into a bedraggled bed of geraniums. It was late afternoon and the dying sun had burnished her usually pale complexion with bronze. There was an almost viscous quality to the light causing the long shadows to soften, their edges blurred as if you were viewing a Monet painting. “See who?” I asked, stalling for time.

Phoebe, now 14, could, at times, unnerve me. She smiled shyly: “Bella of course.”

I too smiled: “I thought you hadn’t

seen her in years?” She laughs, tossing that unruly hair back from her face. “Oh no. I still see her.

She’s still here. I just learnt to keep quiet about it.” A chilly, zephyr-like breeze eddies around us causing the french doors to slam shut and the hard glossy leaves of the old box tree to chatter in agitated alarm.

“She is with us now,” whispers Phoebe.

The light has almost gone and the veranda is engulfed by lavender twilight. It’s then a deeper more intense shadow within the all-over gloom shifts and alters. It begins to take on a new shape. The shadow moves towards us. I hear Phoebe say quietly: “Don’t focus. Let everything fall out of focus.” I allow my eyes to relax and try looking beyond the approaching silhouette.

Then I see her. A young girl, maybe five or six years old, her hair tied back with a ribbon. She wears a white pinafore over a darkcoloured dress and on her feet are tightly laced ankle boots. I find it difficult to breath. It’s as if there is no oxygen in the air and I’m left breathless and feeling slightly giddy.

Suddenly, light explodes around me and a voice calls my name. The girl has vanished. “Tony. Phoebe. Dinner is ready.” It’s my Grandmother. She has turned on the veranda light.

“Are you all right? You look as if you’ve seen a ghost,” she inquires anxiously. Avoiding Phoebe’s

eye, I manage to croak: “I’m fine thanks. Coming now.” As I leave the veranda, I hear Phoebe laugh softly: “Did you see her? Did you see Bella?”

A letter arrived for me last week. I have it before me now. The contents are brief and to the point. It reads as follows: Dear Tony, As you know, Brown’s Lane has been sold and part of the deal was the inclusion of the old Welsh dresser that has stood for ever in the kitchen. While cleaning out its contents, before the new owner took possession, I discovered in one of the drawers, under many layers of lining paper, something I thought you might find interesting. I include it with this letter, Your loving Cousin, Phoebe.

Phoebe had included, fragile and yellow with age, a page from the Western Star, the newspaper at Roma. The page was dated June 12, 1898, and circled in pencil the article Phoebe wanted me to see. It told of the sad story of a Mr and Mrs Landers of Pine Hills Station and the tragic death of their youngest daughter, Arabella. It went on to say that, while staying in their town house on Brown’s Lane at Roma, Arabella, when probably reaching for a plate had accidently pulled down an old kitchen dresser on top of her, thus crushing the little girl to death.

Arabella was five years old.

Mayor gives Valley vision BRISBANE Lord Mayor is to present his vision for Fortitude Valley at this month’s Valley Chamber of Commerce business lunch.

He also is to focus in his address on how his administration is looking to develop Fortitude Valley and its surrounds.

Sydney’s Late Night Economy and Safe City manager, Suzy Matthews, also is to speak at the meeting and focus on opportunities to make Brisbane an outstanding nightlife city. All business and property owners in Fortitude Valley, Bowen Hills, New Farm, Teneriffe, Newstead, CBD and surrounding areas are encouraged to attend the two-course lunch, with wine and entry into a door prize included.

The VCC economic development business lunch is to be held on Tuesday, July 24, at Cloudland, 641 Ann Street from 12.30-2.30pm. To book, email admin@valleychamber. com.au

The next meeting for the Teneriffe Progress Association is July 16 at the ANFE Club on Wyandra st at 7pm. All Welcome.

For more details visit www.teneriffeprogress.org.au

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the chocolate, it just melts in your mouth without leaving a plastic-like coating like some inferior quality chocolates do,” Elodie said. “We prefer to order our chocolates on demand, so when they arrive they are fresh – usually within three weeks of when they were made in France.”

Catherine said she often felt nostalgic childhood memories when the pair travelled around France, sampling the specialties of each region – most notably the caramel creams, jams and Godard geese and quail certified organic foie gras receiving high praise.

Mondoports products can be found at James Street Markets and New Farm Deli or www.mondoports.com.au.

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By Vanessa Fang LUXURY food importing business Mondoports has brought a little slice of France to Teneriffe with their decadent range of specialty products imported from France.

Owners Elodie and Catherine Scally said their travels around France inspired them to bring their heritage back to Australia.

“We always thought that there was room in the market for products like ours. Travelling around France and talking to the producers, they were really approachable. We don’t want to import from large companies, we want to know that our products are being made by artisans from the highest quality ingredients and using traditional methods from generations ago,” Elodie said.

Mondoports is the only supplier in Australia for one of their most popular products – artisanal chocolate, which was imported from the 212-year-old house of Debauve and Gallais in Paris.

The chocolates were formed in the 1800’s by Queen Marie Antoinette’s physician, Sulpice Debauve, to ease her distaste for taking medicines.

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Queensland Governor Her Excellency Ms. Penelope Wensley AC. is festival patron and is to launch the festival along with the 1st Regiment RAA Band at 10.00am.

White Label Noba fashion on parade

DESIGNER White Label Noba is to host this year’s Teneriffe Festival fashion parade in the DoubleOne3 laneway. White Label Noba is a lifestyle brand for women of all sizes and forms, ranging from petite to plus-sized. The fashion parade is to be a preview of their recent collection which comprises of luxe silks and cottons in soft, natural fibres and shades.

White Label Noba owner and designer Tracey Watkins said the label was “for every type, every body and it doesn’t discriminate against age”.

“The show will have a bohemian feel to it, where classic meets contemporary,” Tracey said. “The girls are going to a lot of effort to make this show amazing – with models supplied by Dallys models, one of Queensland’s most prestigious and respected agencies, founded by June Dally-Watkins.

“We are very privileged that June herself will be attending the soiree,” she said.

The parade begins at 6.15pm and is open to the public and free to attend.

Pamper bar provides express service FOR the first time at the Teneriffe Festival, beauty salons and hairdressers in the area have come together to provide express treatments for fabulous festival punters on the go.

Those who decide to stay on into the night after having hit the pavement all day, can head to the Express Pamper Bar and freshen up with a mini facial, then relax with a 15-minute massage to loosen their tired muscles, get their nails done, “zuush” their hair and finish off with a touch of makeup.

Aqua Salon, Body Central, Raw Hair and Runway express are to deliver the treatments.

While waiting for a treatment, festival-goers can relax in the Home Warehouse waiting room and admire its collection.

The Express Pamper Bar is to be located on Vernon Terrace, between Commercial Road and Dath Street.

London Woolstore celebrates 100

THE London woolstores turns 100 this year and, to mark the occasion, a permanent plaque outlining the history of the building is to be unveiled at the festival.

In the evening, the wool store will become the backdrop for a 3D light projection.

Ralph Martell has been the London wool stores manager for two years.

“It is a very interesting old building. It was the very last of the wool stores to be refurbished,” Ralph said. “It is central to Teneriffe and one of the premier buildings in the area.

“I think it’s very popular because of the five restaurants and other shops within the building,” he said.

A function is to be held in September when the building officially turns 100.

Local talent forms music line-up

ORGANISERS of this year’s Teneriffe Festival music line-up say it is sure to impress every “muso” and break out all the embarrassing Travolta, robot and Egyptian moves.

Stretching along Vernon Terrace and Florence Street, the festival’s Main Stage, DoubleOne3 Jazz Stage and Youth Industries Busking Corner are to present the best local talent and emerging performers Brisbane has to offer.

Festival organiser Nicole Ogilvie said she had aimed to deliver a diverse lineup, with a mix of solo acts and big bands, with the emphasis is on music that “will make you move”.

“I wanted to support emerging band, and was lucky enough to get in contact with Gonzalo from Youth Industries to organise the Busking Corner. Make sure you swing by and throw a note in their hats,” Nicole said Another musical highlight is Kooi, whose fusion of Afrobeat, reggae and world rhythms have earned them a glowing reputation.

“I’m really excited to have Kooi in the bill this year. I have tried to book them for the past two festivals,” Nicole said.

Other ensembles include the 70s feel-good funk sounds of Golden Sound and nu-wave brass band Bullhorn along with singer-songwriters such as sassy jazz musician Sarah Collyer.

Devine jazzes up the music program DEVINE, the company behind Teneriffe’s newest apartment address, DoubleOne 3, is to turn up the volume on next Saturday’s third annual Teneriffe Festival by sponsoring the Jazz Stage.

Some of Brisbane’s best performers are to perform on the stage as part of a diverse festival music program.

Devine also is the sponsor of the DoubleOne 3 Laneway, where the team behind Alfred & Constance and Limes Hotel are to have a pop up bar, and designer White Label Noba is to preview its debut summer collection.

Stretching along Vernon Terrace, the festival’s Main Stage, the DoubleOne 3 Jazz Stage and Youth Music Industries Busking Corner are to provide festivalgoers with a host of music and entertainment options.

The first live performance on the Jazz Stage is to begin at 10am.

The Teneriffe Festival 2012 is a free all-ages event on Saturday, July 7, from 9am-10pm on Vernon Terrace at Teneriffe.

The festival celebrates Teneriffe’s vibrant culture and has something for everyone including market stalls, fashion parades, alfresco dining, pop up bars, sheep shearing, a Kidszone and

petting zoo, cooking demonstrations, A Long Lunch, vintage car displays and historical bus tours.

Devine is to give visitors the chance to win a new scooter valued at more than $2000. The prize includes six months’ registration and a helmet and is to be drawn at 5pm at the DoubleOne 3 Jazz Stage in the DoubleOne 3 Laneway.

DoubleOne 3 sales manager David Kortlang said the company was keen to be involved with the festival.

“Teneriffe is an incredibly vibrant suburb with a rich history,” he said.

“There is no better way to celebrate the area than with a festival that brings great food, terrific music and the community together in one place for a day of fund and relaxation.”

Festival organiser Nicole Ogilvie said she was pleased with the diversity of the musical line-up for the event.

“Big bands with horn sections are great at an open air festival – and they’ll sound quite spectacular with the reverb off the beautiful London wool store,” Nicole said.

For further information, log on to www.teneriffefestival.org or www. doubleone3.com.au

Free lamb cooking demonstrations FOR foodies and budding chefs, Katrina and Mark Ryan from the Golden Pig Cooking School are to host free cooking demonstrations on Vernon Terrace throughout the Teneriffe Festival. In keeping with the festival theme, lamb is to be on the menu, alternating between two dishes for demonstration: Lamb pot stickers with ginger and shallot dipping sauce and barbequed lamb with a spicy eggplant relish.

Katrina said the recipes were “Asian-inspired” and relatively easy to make.

“The lamb we will be using is Mirrool Creek lamb from northern New South Wales and Source Grocer will be supplying the rest of the produce,” she said.

Printed recipe cards are to be available for people eager to try the recipes at home.

After having worked at restaurants such as the Rockpool, The Spirit House, The Pig and Olive and The Bathers Pavilion, Katrina and Mark are to open the Golden Pig food and wine school in October in Ross Street, Newstead. Cooking classes, wine appreciation, themed dinners and wine matching and champagne tasting are to be offered to the public as well as tailored to corporate events.

Art studio captures the mood

NOT-for-profit artist run initiative, LoveLove Studio, is to celebrate this year’s Teneriffe Festival with a showcase of works from its numerous artists in residence.

Festival-goers are to be invited to follow the sheep sculptures to LoveLove and discover the artworks on display – including taking a sneak peak at the open studios or check out the skateboard shop.

For those in the mood for fashion, there also is to be the “preloved love clothing sale” with many bargains. Barista coffee and tea is to be available at the bar.

The doors open at 10am. The clothing sale ends at 2pm but the gallery is to remain open until 6pm.

LoveLove Studio, which was established in 2008, provides a creative space for artistic and cultural development. It consists of several large gallery spaces, a skateboard shop, artists’ studios, bar and a shady barbeque and outdoor area.

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M A R G O R P T EVEN MAGICAL HISTORY TOUR Jump on board the 1969 Leyland Panther from the corner of Commercial Rd and Skyring Tce. This ride down memory lane will give you a feel for Teneriffe, taking you through historical industrial sites and houses in the area. Conducted by the QLD Omnibus & Coach Society and New Farm & Districts Historical Society.

Don’t miss it - visit the marquee in the history zone to take the tour.

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Youth Music Industries Busking Corner 10.30am – Fossils 11.15am – Kurt Sines 12.00pm – Stephen Smith 12.45pm – luka powell 1.30pm – sam luff 2.15pm – Shallie Campbell 3.00pm – Skye Neil 3.45pm – Graham Moes 4.30pm – gonzalo’s gypsy jazz quartet

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TASTES OF TENERIFFE Claret House, Passione, Brio Café, London Club, Aqua Linea, Eves on the River, Sip Café and Sourced Grocer are out on the street offering great drinks and food to eat!

DOUBLE ONE 3 LANEWAY Enjoy the Alfred & Constance POP UP bar while grooving to the sublime jazz bands.

with the Golden Pig Cooking & Win Every hour from 11am - 4pm.

Katrina and Mark Ryan will show you how to cook various dishes and pass on a wealth of cooking knowledge from their past experience working at Rockpool, The Spirit House, The Pig and Olive and The Cooking Classes – Wine & Spirit Courses Bathers Pavilion.

MUSIC ON THE Double One 3 Stage:

10am to 10.45am – Mikaela and James 11am to 11.45am – Natalie JeJager 11.45am to 12pm – Betty and the Betties 12pm to 12.45pm – Coisa Linda 1pm to 1.45pm – Out of Abingdon 2pm to 2.45pm – Sarah Collyer 3pm to 3.45pm – van gogh’s earlobe Check out the 4pm to 4.45pm – Ingrid James centenary celebrations for the 4pm to 7pm – Tom Ford DJ London Woolstores with a light 6.15pm to 6.45pm – Fashion Parade show on the facade - after dark. with White Label Noba Tce Historical footage on Vernon 7pm to 8pm – Band of Frequencies DJ sponsored by 5th Corner. set with vintage surf footage 9.30am – 1st Regiment RAA Band 8pm to 10pm – DJs 9.40am – The Running of the Rams 10am to 10.30am – Opening Ceremony 10.30am to 10.45am – Betty and the Betties 10.45am to 11am – Dan Acfield 11.05am to 11.35am – Alan Boyle 11.40am to 12.10pm – Ilona Harker 12.15pm to 12.45pm – Dom Miller 12.50pm to 1.20pm – Keiran Waters Head to the Park by the river and Catch live 1.25pm to 1.55pm – Kellie Lloyd enjoy the Barnyard Babies petting music at the 2pm to 2.45pm – Red Revolver zoo, Pony Rides plus Sheep Shearing Florence Fringe 3pm to 3.45pm – Lachy Doley Demonstrations, Wool Grading Festival. Check out the 4pm to 4.45pm – Kooii Demonstrations and sing along to the following at Salon: 5pm to 5.45pm – Band of Frequencies classic songs of Australia’s sheep 6pm to 6.45pm – Storm Chasers celestino from 2pm to 5pm shearing past. Learn all about 7pm to 7.45 pm – Golden Sound Luna junction from the journey of wool.

8pm to 8.45pm – Bullhorn 5pm to 7pm 9pm to 9.45pm – Chukale

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villageentertainment Funny’s funny but nothing fancy for Judy’s new show

By Alexandria Utting

Judith argues that “funny’s funny” and it would be a good night all round.

“It’s nothing fancy. That really is pretty much it in a nutshell,” Judith said.

Nothing Fancy is to run from Tuesday, July 17, until Sunday, July 22, at the Brisbane Powerhouse’s Powerhouse Theatre, 119 Lamington Street, New Farm.

Tickets are $40 and $36. Friday and Saturday night tickets are $45.

Bookings can be made by telephoning 3358 8600 or by logging on to brisbanepowerhouse.org.

Contemporary Art is at 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley For further information or to book tickets log on to www. judithwrightcentre.com

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AUSTRALIA’S queen of comedy, Judith Lucy, is back in town this month and set to deliver her new stand-up show, Nothing Fancy.

With a sold-out season in Sydney already under her belt, Judith and Nothing Fancy will hit Brisbane’s Powerhouse stages with the promise to be “a little bit charming and a whole lot hilarious”.

After 20 years in the comedy industry, Judith Lucy has become a household name, not only for her stand-up routines but also for her radio and television projects.

She has been a presenter on radio station Triple J, famously co-hosted the 2DAY-FM breakfast show in Sydney and, more recently, went on a quest to find something to believe in on the ABC1 show Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey.

This year, Judith has returned to her roots of stand-up comedy.

“In the past, I’ve tended to do shows that have had quite strong themes. This time around I thought I’d get up there and tell some gags,” Judith said.

Nothing Fancy is unlike Judith’s previous shows. There will be no singing, no dancing, just gags about everything from Internet dating to cockroach phobia’s with something to which people of all ages could relate.

TICKETS went on sale late last month for next month’s Bands of Your Town concert on Friday, August 3.

The winner of the 2012 Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship – Queensland’s major song writing prize – is to be announced at the concert.

The fellowship finalists are Edward Guglielmino and Kellie Lloyd from Brisbane, Laneway’s Louise O’Reilly and Paul Hannan from the Gold Coast and Toowoomba’s Sue Ray. Ed not only launched his new album Sunshine State at the Judy last month but is a regular DJ at Jamie’s Espresso Bar at Fortitude Valley.

They are to perform alongside last year’s winner Scott Spark and Grant McLennan’s sister Sally McLennan.

The Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship was first established in 2007 in honour of the late Queensland singer-songwriter Grant McLennan, who was considered one of Australia’s greatest and most influential songwriters and founding member of internationally successful 1970’s Brisbane band The Go-Betweens.

The Fellowship is a travel bursary giving winners the chance to travel to New York, London or Berlin to further develop their songwriting skills.

Brisbane-based Scott Spark chose New York as his destination and returned to the US in February to work on his second album which is due to be released later this year.

Tickets to Bands of Your Town are $20.

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BRISBANE choreographer Lisa Wilson’s new dance work, Lake, premieres at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art on Wednesday, July 11.

The work is Wilson’s follow up to the acclaimed debut Elbow Room.

Lake is one of two major works Wilson, described as emerging as a bold new force in the Australian dance scene, is to introduce this winter. The other is Desire for Sydney Dance Company as part of its spring dance program.

Wilson, a highly respected former dancer from Expressions Dance Company, has been awarded the prestigious Hephzibah Tintner Choreographic Fellowship and has worked with some of the country’s

leading artistic companies including the Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company and Opera Australia.

Lake is performed entirely on a stage in flood as designer Bruce McKinvin submerges the entire stage with water.

“I was captivated by the concept of water reflecting our human emotions and connections. As Lake portrays, this can be serene and calm or menacing, murky and isolating. I was also eager to explore the primal aspect of water and what lies beneath when we ‘break the surface tension’ of a relationship” Lisa said.

The production team from the Judith Wright Centre described delivering the setting as “challenging”.

Lake premieres on Wednesday, July 11 and continues until Saturday, July 14.

Tickets are $35, $28 and $19. To book, telephone 3872 9000 or log on to www. judithwrightcentre.com The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts is at 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley.

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RENOWNED play Columbo, Prescription: Murder will premiere in Australia at the New Farm Nash Theatre on July 14.

Directed by Sandra Harman, the story weaved through the life of brilliant New York psychiatrist, Dr Roy Flemming, who attempts to get away with murdering his neurotic, possessive wife.

When an ambitious police officer, Lieutenant Columbo, grows suspicious of Flemming, the two engage in a cat-and-mouse duel of wits in order to defeat the other.

Premiering as a stage play in 1961, Prescription: Murder’s characters were played by many famous faces, including Joseph Cotton, of Citizen Kane, and Thomas Mitchell, from Gone with the Wind and It’s A Wonderful Life, who sadly passed away before the show could make its Broadway Premiere.

The Nash Theatre was “proud” to present the original play which inspired an eventual long running TV series, which premiered in 1971.

Columbo Prescription: Murder will open on July 14 at Nash Theatre, 52 Merthyr Road, New Farm, at 7:30pm. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for conession and $12 for students and members. For bookings, phone 3379 4775 or email nashtheatre4@ bigpond.com for more show dates and information.

Chamber of Commerce The Valley Chamber of Commerce held a Meet & Mingle night at Mirvac’s Waterfront Newstead. Guests were treated to drinks and nibbles and some fantastic raffle prizes were up for grabs from Mirvac and BMW.

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Launch speeds up countdown to Ekka

THE countdown to next month’s 135th annual Ekka begins in earnest on Thursday, July 19, when the RNA lifts the curtain on the program it has planned for this year.

The popular annual show, which brings the country to the city, is to be run this year against a backdrop of cranes and the noise of jackhammers as areas around the historic Spring Hill showgrounds take shape as a massive new residential, commercial and business hub. This year’s media launch is to provide an “exclusive sneak peek” of the show program including entertainment, preview of the popular cotton and wool fashion parades and demonstrations by leading chefs plus award-winning food and wine.

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Canvas Cocktail and Wine Bar in Woolloongabba had there 2nd birthday celebrations! Happy Birthday Canvas.

Guests were treated to delicious cocktails and and some amazing Blues tunes.

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Mirvac Design won the Brisbane Regional Commendation award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing at the 2012 Queensland Architecture Awards for its Pier development.

Mirvac Design’s national practice director, Peter Cotton, said the award was a measure of success and a testament to the years of planning and detail that had gone into the project Another of the nine Pier penthouse apartments recently sold for close to $6 million. Three remain unsold.

Residents began moving into the development’s second stage, called Park, last month where recent sales had reached $5 million – which included the sale of one apartment for more than $1.2 million and four others for between $875,000 and $705,000. Park comprises a total of 102 apartments.

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and comprise medium and highrise apartment buildings. Mirvac’s Waterfront Newstead development director, Brett Robinson, said the location of the development and the extensive parklands were key draw cards for major urban development.

“With the entertainment, shopping and dining district of Fortitude Valley and James Street so close by and the Brisbane CBD just 2km away, this is a prime city location with rare urban park and recreational space,” Mr Robinson said.

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THE reinstatement of the Principal Place of Residence stamp duty concession and the removal of sustainability declarations will benefit home owners and real estate professionals, according to the Real Estate Institute of Queensland.

The REIQ said home buyers could now save up to $7000 in stamp duty.

The changes came into effect on July 1 after State Parliament passed its Treasury (Cost of Living) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012.

The REIQ also said the need for sustainability declarations also would be removed from the selling process.

REIQ chief executive officer Anton Kardash said the changes would be warmly welcomed by everyone involved in the real estate profession.

Mr Kardash praised the government for having removed what he called “extraneous piece of paperwork” from the property sales process.

He said there had been widespread disapproval of the sustainability declaration process from sellers and buyers.

“The removal of the declarations is the first step towards reducing red tape in the real estate transaction process,”

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He said he looked forward to being consulted about other initiatives to help simplify the buying and selling process.

Queensland Law Society CEO Noela L’Estrange said reinstating the transfer duty concession was “great news”.

“Buyers stand to save money on duty and sellers may benefit from a keener market,” Ms L’Estrange said.

She said the former ALP Government last year cancelled the concession for transfer duties (commonly known as stamp duty) for purchases of homes, resulting in significant cost increases for some consumers.

“It’s wonderful news that now both people who have purchased a property in the past and first-home buyers can benefit from the system,” she said.

Until 30 June, first-time home owners received a discount on the transfer duty for homes up to $600,000 but, on July 1, that limit dropped to $550,000.

“There are some conditions on eligibility to the concessions so we recommend people have a chat with their solicitor to see how they may be affected,” Ms L’Estrange said.

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ANOTHER rare piece of New Farm real estate is to go under the hammer this month, with Sydney House to be auctioned.

The art deco cavity brick home, on the corner of Sydney and Hazelwood streets, was built in 1951 on the 405sq m block.

The three-level home has three bedrooms, a study, a renovated kitchen, polished timber and floors.

Marketing agent Dan Smith from Ray White New Farm said Sydney House had “loads of character.”

Dan said near record-breaking numbers attended the open house.

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opportunity to have a look through,” Dan said.

“Freehold houses in the art deco style are extremely rare in New Farm. It’s a great opportunity for buyers who like the style of home and are looking for something that is individual and stands out from the crowd,” he said.

The property is 100m from the Brisbane River and the Sydney Street CityCat Terminal and has access from both streets.

Sydney House is to be again open for inspection on July 3. To book a time to look through the home or for further information, telephone Dan on 0438 120 776 or email dan. smith@raywhite.com The property is to be auctioned on July 14 at 10am.

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“We would like to thank Simon & Padraic on the successful sale of our riverfront property.

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Place Man mixes it with other heroes THE team at Place Estate Agents at New Farm raised $1140 as part of the annual Mater Little Miracles Fun Run on June 3.

The 5km walk, with a superhero theme, started at Southbank Parklands and followed a route over the Goodwill Bridge, through the Botanic Gardens and back to Southbank.

Place Man, the team’s custom-made hero, was highly sought after with the children as they mingled alongside Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Dora the Explorer and the gang from Scooby Doo. Every year, between March and July, the Mater Little Miracles 5k holds numerous family events across Queensland to help thousands of sick children, mothers and babies at the Mater Hospital.

By Vanessa Fang TENERIFFE property developer Anthony Flynn has taken out the state’s top fundraiser for the St Vincent De Paul’s CEO Sleepout for homelessness, which happened on June 21.

When Village News went to press, Anthony had raised $94,811 of $878,000 in Queensland, bringing the nation’s total funds raised to more than $5 million.

He said the night was “uncomfortable” but it was good to meet other people who had a similar feeling of social responsibility and used their resources to help as much as they could.

“It was just our night to step into the shoes of a homeless person to get a glimpse of what it’s like sleeping on the streets,” Anthony said. “It was very uplifting. When we arrived there, there was a real feeling that everyone who lived by a title dropped the title. It was just myself, Dean (Merlo) and 148 others.

Everyone was quite humbled and took off their CEO jackets. We talked, laughed and did what people do on the streets.”

He said the greatest achievement of the campaign was not becoming the state’s top fundraiser, made possible by the “incredible generosity” of his donors, but the level of awareness he spread to his peers by helping to feed the homeless and witnessing many of St Vinnie’s rehabilitation programs in action.

“The night was an incredible end to an experience that I needed to immerse myself in to understand it

(homelessness) and realise what message I needed to tell everyone,” Anthony said.

“My greatest achievement is giving hundreds of people an insight into what I saw as homelessness. It is the everyday factor; a homeless person can just be a person out of love or out of luck.

“The best move I made at the start of it all was chatting and meeting homeless people. Without that, I don’t think I could’ve shared my passion with everyone because I wouldn’t have understood the issue properly,” he said.

While the sleepout event has concluded for 2012, Anthony stressed the importance of providing ongoing support to St Vincent de Paul Society’s homelessness projects, including Families Back on Track, which provided housing and assistance to 108 disadvantaged families on the Gold Coast.

“Vinnies is the hand at the back for support rather than just handing you something,” Anthony said. “This is a root solution to homelessness. You can put someone in the hostel for a night and rehabilitate them but the FTOB program is a full year of living in a nice environment, in your own place, your children can go to school again, you can get your life back again,” he said.

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Prestige Apartments

The epitome of riverfront living!

11/81 Moray Street, New Farm “Aquila” - Pure opulence with spectacular city and river views, this prestigious apartment positioned in the Tom Dooley designed boutique complex is luxury at its best. Offering 3 beautifully appointed bedrooms (master with ensuite) gourmet kitchen with Miele appliances, spacious open plan living area flowing onto a huge balcony with built in barbeque. Luxury facilities include stunning pool and entertainment area and fully equipped gymnasium.

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3 Bedrooms 2 Bedrooms plus Powder Room Home Office / Study area Cabled broadband & Star serve Network Zoned Air Conditioning Pet Friendly Jetty

Inspection Time: Saturday 11:00 – 11:45am Margaret Waters 0412 069 699 Margaret.waters@raywhite.com

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New Farm

M: 0412 069 699 599 Brunswick Street, New Farm E: margaret.waters@raywhite.com rwnf.com.au

DAN SMITH D: 07 3358 0610

FOR SA LE

4313/126 Lamington Street, New Farm

SOLD

Chermside Street, Teneriffe

No nonsense, honest advice and a successful 12 year track record.

M: 0438 120 776

FOR SA LE

22 Cintra Road, Bowen Hills

E: dan.smith@raywhite.com

FOR SA LE

9 Sydney Street, New Farm

SOLD

Refinery Parade, New Farm

07 3254 1022 rwnf.com.au 599 Brunswick Street, New Farm

FOR SA LE

2332/32 Refinery Parade, New Farm

SOLD

Heal Street, New Farm

SOLD

Florence Street, Teneriffe

we have the people

Sam was so easy to speak with on our first meeting. He immediately gave me confidence in the project of selling my property.

Sam’s manner is very professional and he is very friendly. Sam has the gift of patience and empathy.

Linda VerLinden

SOLD

4 Hipwood St, Spring Hill

SOLD

1/81 Barker St, New Farm

FOR SA LE

100/170 Leichhardt St, Spring Hill

FOR SA LE

62/36 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe

07 3254 1022 rwnf.com.au 599 Brunswick Street, New Farm

SOLD

45/50 Anderson St, Fortitude Valley

SOLD

54/36 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe

FOR SA LE

FOR SA LE

25 Twine St, Spring Hill

11 Isaac St, Spring Hill

SAM MAYES 0402 094 553 sm@rwnf.com.au

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auctions Date Venue

29th July 2012 The Emporium Hotel, Fortitude Valley 10:30am

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17 Balfour street, new Farm

22 waverley street, new Farm

49 mcilwraith avenue, norman park

“simla”- entire art Deco Building!!

when luxury Has no Boundaries

charming renovated colonial to call Home

iVo Kornel 0412 301 439 Haesley cusH 0421 057 233

matt lancasHire 0416 476 480

matt lancasHire 0416 476 480 scott Darwon 0401 151 090

36 sydney street, new Farm

73/18 tank street, Brisbane city

614/16 skyring terrace, Teneriffe

iconic Family Home with timeless charm

Fantastic 2 bed in the heart of the cBD

two Bedroom apartment plus study over 2 levels

matt lancasHire 0416 476 480

simon petrie 0439 668 867

Dan smitH 0438 120 776

25 twine street, spring Hill

18/37 Duncan street, west end

25 redfern street,woolloongabba

435m2 of spring Hill gold

Flow apartments – riverside location

great Value renovator in central location

margaret waters 0412 069 699

Dan smitH 0438 120 776

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1302/92 Quay street, Brisbane

100/170 leichhardt st, spring Hill

193 James street, new Farm

cheapest 3 Bedroom inner city apartment!

Flawless 2 Bed apartment with stunning Views

two street Frontage!!! a spacious family home!!!

Kirsten Braun 0431 465 152 eagle st 6 July 2012 @ 10:30am

sam mayes 0402 094 553 onsite sat 14 Jun @ 2:00pm

iVo Kornel 0412 301 439 onsite sat 7 Jul @ 2:30pm

90 little chester street, new Farm

3/66 merthyr road, new Farm

9 sydney street, new Farm

“contemporary parkside living on little chester�

a fantastic property in the heart of new Farm.

restore this art deco gem to its former glory!

matt lancasHire 0416 476 480 onsite sat 7 Jul @ 11:30am

simon petrie 0439 668 867 onsite sat 7 Jul @ 1:00pm

Dan smitH 0438 120 776 onsite sat 14 Jul @ 10:00am

2/66 Junction road, Clayfield

35/6 merthyr road, new Farm

2 lechmere street, new Farm

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make no mistake, this one will be sold!

Kirsten Braun 0431 465 152 onsite sat 14 Jul @ 12:00pm

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interstate investor wants a sale!

scott Darwon 0401 151 090 matt lancasHire 0416 476 480 eagle st 20 Jul 2012 @10.30am

we have the people

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an alluring Family Home Bursting with warmth matt lancasHire 0416 476 480 onsite sat 28 Jul 2012 @11:00am